Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-10
PRETTY CREOLE WOMEN.
Good Features, Handsome Eyes and Beat
tiful Figures Their Heritage.

! Good Features, Handsome Eyes and Beau
| uful Figures Their Heritage.
A New Orleans letter to the Omaha Re
publican says: The aristocratic creole
| Iady is often model for the imitation of
her sex. She is an Obedlent and respect
tul daughter, faithful wife and de-
voted mother. She is soft of speech and
has grace of manner which gives
charm to all she does. Well educated and
accomplished, with keen wit, she makes
q brilliant figure in society, but is never
| thelesS an excellent manager of her
! household, and gives q most careful
supervision to every detail that will en-
| nance the comfort of her lord She looks
diligently after the physical and intellec-
tual welfare Of her children. Especially
are her daughters trained under her own
eyes in sill that goes to make women
lovely In mind &nd person. Their tasks
| for school are cOnned at he side, their
music lessons are practiCed within her
hearing, that she may detect the least
/ false note. She shares in all their smuse-
ments, she is their companion. their con-
| fidant, their friend. They come to her
with ell their little hopes and fears, sure
of her sympathy. When her daughter is
grown the creole mstrOn blooms again
into rich second youth, her own girl
hood is renewed in that of q child; they
! are scarcely mother and daughter any
longer, but pair Of loving sisters. The
young girl is educated IN 9 convent and
leads 8 secluded existence until she is
launched in society, and then IN the Joy
Gus lie that bursts upon her she is always
surrounded by the same watChful care
that surrounded her childhood. Young
girls are not allowed TO 60 into society
without being accompanied bv their
mothers or some other married lady as
chapeTOn-On9 of the man creole Gus
toms which mas been generally adopted
by the American, residents Of New Or
lesnS.
These young girls are often wonderful
iy beautiful. Good features, handsome
eyes ana graceful figures combine TO
make them very attractive, their beauty
being not infrequently Oriental in type,
though the vivaCIty Of their manners
marks them as essentially French in char
acteT. Many creole women are very &C
Complished. They have skill in music
and painting that is often artistic. In
the literary clubs which society women
have inauguTated Of late years in New
Orleans, the American ladies have been
sstonished 10 find the creole ladies' quite
as well posted as themselves in English
literature, while possessing q much
greater knowledge of the literature of
other countries. But an accomplishment
still more attractive to the impe-
CuniOus young man seeking matrlmOnY
is the exquisite taste with which
these maidens fair viii fashion their own
gowns and bOnnets when circumstances
require them to make these things ct
home. The creole women have inherited
the French taste for dress, and in q
greater degree than other Americans they
regard the fiat of Paris IS the supreme
authority in all matters concerning the
toilet. Also, the creole women of all
ages and of all classes are deyout. Nei-
ther social engagements, or weather, nor
other obstacles are allowed to interfere
with the discharge of their religious du-
ties. Are they not somewhat supersti-
tious? Some of them little so, perhaps,
in remembrance of vOudOO stories told
them in their infancy by old negro nurses.